Table implement



A. FOLTIS TABLE IMPLEME NT June 24, 1930.

Filed Feb. 13, 1929 awueuboz omen STATES ATENT OVFFFEQE F nivns'ris roL'rIs, or NEW YORK, 1v. Y.

TABLE IMPLEMENT Application filed Febriiar'y'm, 1929. Serial Iva 339,589.

I My invention relates to improvements in block of elastic medium adapted to normally table "implements and is particularly adaptspace apart the free ends of said armsj edvfor use in serving spaghetti and like'food. I 2. In a table implement an elastic com- 7 d The object of my invention is to provide presslble member in the form of a block 5 a simple and useful table implement." 'adaptedto carry spoon and fork means, and 55 I accomplish this object by the device ilsockets in said compressible member adapted lustrated in the accompanying drawings, in to detachably receive and hold the said spoon which v v v and fork means. d F Figure 1 is a view of the preferred form In testimony whereof, I have signed my 1g of my device, p name to this specification this fifth day of 66' Figure 2 is an optional form of the Fe ary, 29 r 1 a i ANESTISFOLTIS;

device. y g I Similarcharacters of reference refer to similar parts throughoutthefseveral views. i v H I 15. In the preferred form'of the device illusr a d I Q trated in Figure 1, I provide a'table'implei Y ment comprising two gripping members 13 and 14. The gripping member 13 has a spoon-like bowl 4 with an extendedscoop. or

ZO'n'ose 5, and the, gripping member 2 is ro L g 7 7 I 'vided with tines 6, preferably having their outer ends 7' bent slightly away ,from the member 1 and preferably so arranged as to I be depressed within the bwl-4 when the two I r I I p 25 gripping members 13 and 14 are brought toe getherr In this form of the device, I preferably vemploy a shaped block 10 .of rubber orlike elastic material, having diverging channels 80 11 and 12 adapted to receive and hold there- I v v I g v f 80 e in the gripping members 18 and 14. Theblock 10, being elastic. will thus serve as a 4 spring means for normally holding apart the gripping members 13 and 14. 4 p a v v v I In the optional form of the device illusf i I V trated in Figure '2, I have shown the spring means in the form of a rubber or elastic ball 40 having diverging channels '41, 42 respectively to receive and hold the gripping mem- 40 bers 43, 44. The ball 40, beingcomp'ressible and elastic will serve as a convenient spring means for normally spreading the gripping 5 members.

7 45 Having thus described myinvention, what f V '7 v I I claim is:

1. In a device of the character described, a pair of arms having free ends a spoon on the free end of one said arm and a fork on '50 the free end of the; other said arm and a 1 i I A V 1cc 

